Released on this day in 2016 was the Tongue Tied album
The album can be heard on the following links as well as all other platforms
or here and all other platforms https://music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B01FNKZIH6?marketplaceId=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&musicTerritory=GB&ref=dm_sh_crgimhGpYkf5RiPkG8q4c3cpf
Some album trivia
Tongue Tied was the first single i ever released which was put out a month or so before the album
There was only two singles from the album the title track and Blue Jean Baby which was released after the album release
Tongue Tied was originally written as a duet that i used to sing with a friend of mine, she would sing one verse and me the 2nd and overlap our vocals in a relay style for the chorus.
9 Kinds of Crazy , House of Hell and Easy on me Baby all won some song contests
The newest written songs on the album at the time were You Give Me the Blues and 9 kinds of Crazy
The oldest written songs on the album were That Girl of Mine and I Don't Wanna Walk Away which i originally wrote when i was 15/16
Hurts Like Hell is the longest song on the album at over 6 minutes and still the longest track released so far to date
The early versions of Hurts like Hell had a longer 2nd chorus and longer guitar outro which put the song up to 9 minutes in lengh
The scat style vocals near the end of that girl of mine was just me messing about when listening back to the recording that i decided to keep in the recording along with the other vocal backing parts.
House of Hell so far is the only song that has some sound effects on it, with a creaking door, floor and scream in the intro
The only other musician on the album is Ray Brookes who plays harmonica on Easy on me Baby
The album was recorded old skool on a portable digital recording unit with most of the tracks mixed and mastered live on that then uploaded to my pc where i added a little more percussion and final mastering.
6 string banjo is played on two songs, Tongue Tied and Lucky in love
Of all my early demo songs Blue Jean Baby was the song eveyrone came back singing to me, i even bought a new guitar just to record this version in a effort to try and do it justice.
The track list for the album changed quite a bit, the original plan was just to only have songs written pre tongue tied and only one very early song , but i ended up recording 2 recent songs for it,and 2 from what i call my middle section of songs and 2 very early ones, the rest was pre Tongue Tied as planned.
I originally had 3 or 4 other songs i wanted on the album but i couldn't get good recordings of them at the time. a few of those will be re- done for a outtake album in the future.
Tongue Tied, Blue jean baby and hurts like hell i saw as the trilogy for the album of start middle and end theme wise, with a few detours during the album like to the house of hell, but i wanted the songs to fit that theme either lyrically or musically. with a light pop rock style to it that got its depth from the 2 rock ballads Blue jean Baby and Hurts Like Hell.
4 Songs from the album have reached over a thousand plays on spotify so far , Blue Jean Baby, House of Hell, 9 Kinds of Crazy and That Girl of Mine
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